Let me ask you this: Why do you think there are full-time psychologists and psychiatrists treating 'active duty' personnel?

Straight answer? They are too short for warm, trained and experienced bodies to send back into the grinder to be turning out anyone actually willing
or physically able to return and fight.

If any sense were being applied here.....men who showed clear psych issues or who BEGGED for help (Staff Sgt Bales, comes to mind) wouldn't be
patronized and then sent back into the grind. They'd be taken off the line, treated out of the combat theater and then either discharged, given
training billets to make their experience at least count for something, or returned to duty in those cases where it really was resolved and not just
given a band-aid to look resolved.

Indeed.. We're producing broken people by sending them into the most insane activity mankind ever pursues ...over and over and over again. We're
producing broken people by using them until they break.

I wonder what a study would show for Suicide rates among GIs compared to tours served in a combat zone? How many 1st tour returns eat their gun? How
many 2nd and 3rd tour men? How many of the 6-8+ tour lifers end it that way? I'll bet the results from that, if taken in true good faith to see just
what it came up with, would be informative.

Just to touch on the evangelical Christian point .... they are wrong, but they do have a point. There are numerous causes for PTSD on the battlefield.
It can be caused by doing something terrible, that you know is wrong, and you did anyway. Other causes certainly can't be avoided and those pastors
are simply disgusting and don't seem to have a firm grasp of the Bible, or psychology.

There is a lot of toxicity in anything run by the government, the army is certainly rife with it.

Let us not forget that the combat troops are handed out packages of legal, mind-altering drugs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors aka SSRIs)
that contain up to 17 different psychoactive agents for "stressful situations." The packs contain 3-6 weeks supply of 35-40 different drugs like
antibiotics, antihistamines, anti-fungals and such. They are handed out routinely according to a relative of mine who served in Baghdad as an
ambulance driver/technician. He says that easily a quarter of their runs involved troops who had "emptied the pack."
How can this be safe? No agency or company has ever tested the interactions of that many medications in combinations.....I was absolutely floored to
find out that his reports were accurate. I simply couldn't believe that they would hand out those kinds of medications in those amounts but when I
contacted a good friend who was a physician with the National Guard for many, many years he confirmed it. He was bent beyond pretzel over it and had
written numerous letters to authorities, all to no avail. "The drug companies love the opportunity for the introduction to thousands of potential
life-long customers." was his final comment.
One of the listed side-effects of every one of the 17 psychotropics being handed out is: Increased suicide ideation when compared to placebo.
Personally, I think the chemicals going into the soldiers have more to do with the suicide rate than some nasty officers.

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